Improvement in coloring photographs



waited $111M ROBERT WINTER, or] SAN FRANc'Isco; CALIFORNIA.

Letters Patent No. 104,241, dated June 14, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLORING PHOTOGRAPHS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera'Patem: and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, ROBERT WINTER, of San Fran cisco, county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented Improvements in Painting Photographic Pictures in Oil and Water-Colors; and I do hereby declare the following description is sufficient to enablenny person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains, to make and use my said invention or improvements without; further invention or. experiment.

The purport or essence of my invention is the production of a new and improved style of painting upon photographic pictures, or cards upon which a photograph has been taken and It consists in a method or mode by which it is rendered possible to employ upon the same picture both water and oil colors, in order to produce a fine efi'ect and give a rich appearance to the picture.

To accomplish this object I take an ordinary photograph on albumen paper, and first use water-colors for painting and giving tone and expression to the face and any other portion of the picture to which this style of painting is adapted or of advantage. I then flow over the entire surface of the carda thin film or coating of collodion, which is permitted to become dry.

After the collodiou has become sutficiently dry, I either float a coat of spirit varnish over the surface, or apply a coating of oil varnish with a brush in the usual manner, the film of collodion preventing the varnish from being absorbed by the paper. This last coating not only protects the photograph and the water-colors, but prepares it for finishing the remaining portions of thepicturc in oil colors, with either plain, ornamental, or landscape back-ground, and re touching with oil colors, if desired, the face, drapery, or any other part in which its application can be made with greater effects than with water colors.

The picture, when completed, is susceptible of being varnished, similar to any ordinary oil-painting.

The advantage of thus combining the water-colors in one part and oil-colors in another part of the picture, is to produce a brilliancy, softness, and clearuess of outline, which cannot be obtained in photographs as ordinarily painted. I

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- lhe preparation of photographs on albumen paper 

